Insole.



' A. & A. N. RACICOT.

INSOLE.

APPLICATION FILED'SEPT. 29. 19:].

1,265,514. Patented May 7, 1918.

ARTHUR RACICOT AND ALEXANDER N, RACICOT, OF WEBSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

INSOLE.

Specification of Letters Patent,

'iatented May 7, 1918.

Application filed September 29, 1917 Serial No. 194,040.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, An'ruun RACICOT and ALEXANDER N. RAGICOT, citizens of the United States, residing at Webster, in the count of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improve ments in Insoles, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention pertains to insoles for boots and shoes; and it consists in the peculiar and advantageous water-proof insolo hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which are hereby made a part hereof:

Figure l an inverted plan illustrative of an insole constructed in accordance with our invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same, taken in the plane indicated by the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary transverse section showing a portion of n insole constructed in accordance with a modification of our invention.

Referring by numeral to the said drawings and more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2 thereof:

1 indicates a laye which is preferably of leather though it may be of any analogous material and is of about the proportional thickness illustrated, and 2 is a rib disposed on the underside of the forward portion of the layer 1 and spaced about the distance illustrated from the edge thereof. The

said rib 2 is formed by a cord. or other suit' able tiller 3 and covering layers l and 5 arranged over the tiller connected at (i by a row ol stitches to the layer 1; the said row of stitehes being lisposed at the inner side of the rib as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The layer 5 is of textile material suitable to the purpose while the layer 4 is of rubber or rubber rolrponnd having the. quality of excluding water.

In the production of our improved insole, the layers of textile material and rubber together with the layer of leather or analogous material are vulcanizedtogether in the ordinary well known manner or by a cold vulcanizing process. with the result that the several layers 1, 4 and 5, are converted into a unitary mass.

The insole produced in the manner described is adapted to be incorporated in a sho or boot, and to be connected with the vamp and lining and the outer or tap sole in accordance with the McKay or' Goodyear methods and by either hand work or machinery, and when so incorporated the insole will have the quality of being entirely water-proof. It will also be appreciated that the rib overed with layers of rubber and canvas or other textile material vulcanized together is oi such character that with each stitch taken through the covered rib, the rubber will expand incidental to the stitching and close tight against the thread so as l0 cil'ectually prevent moisture from aining access to the tiller or to the undersi e of the layer 1. It will t'urther' be appreciated that by virtue of our improved insole should the tap sole (not shown) become unstitched the water-proof quality of the shoe is not ali'eeted, this for the reason that the insole is next to the foot of the wearer and eveni when disconnected to the tap sole will exrlnde-water from the interior of the shoe.

While we have shown the embodiment in Figs. 1 and 2 as comprising but one layer 4, and one layer 5, it is manifest that without involving departure from the scope of our invention any number of the said layers may be employed, according to the quality of insole desired.

In the modification shown in Fi 3, the sole or bottom is made up of a layer 1 formed of alternate layers 4 and 5, of rubher or rubber compound and textile material, respectively. and the said layer 1 is provided with a rib 2 formed and disposed in the same manner as the rib 2 of Figs. 1 and 2; the formation of the said rib 2* being accomplished by covering a filler 3, of cord or other suitable material, with layers t and 5 of rubber and canvas or textile material, respectively.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that when the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 is employed the layer 1 is positioned next to the foot of th wearer; also, that the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 is possessed of all of the advantages hereinbefore ascribed to the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Having described our invention, what We claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, i8:

i. As a new article of manufacture, an insole for boots and shoes, comprising a bottom layer, a rib filler arranged against one side of said layer, and layers of rubber and textile i'naterial arranged over the rib filler and 2 Leeann against the outer surface of the first-named layer and vulcanized together and to said first-named layer.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an insole for boots and shoes, omprising a bottom layer made up of layers of rubber and textile material vulcanized together, a rib filler arranged against one side of said bottom layer, and layers of rubber and textile 10 material arranged over the rib filler and against the outer surface of the first-named or bottom layer and vulcanized together and to said first named or bottom layer.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing 15 witnesses.

ARTHUR RACICOT. ALEXANDER N. RACICOT.

Witnesses:

Hncron N. RacrooT, ALPHONSE BOURBEAU. 

